why won't my clowns play in there nem?

[Tmoriarty]

Taped picture with my clowns photoshopped into my nem for a month....didn't even come close to working

 

[Xavier613]

Sorry i only read a couple threads of people doing it with nothing but success... ill try to dig them up, but my thing is, what do you have to lose by trying?

 

[eXcite95]

has anyone tried putting a laptop next to the tank with a video on loop of clowns being hosted by a nem?

nick b

 

[psusocr]

Time and patience are the best method...

 

[TDesaulniers]

has anyone tried putting a laptop next to the tank with a video on loop of clowns being hosted by a nem?

nick b

I honestly doubt the clownfish are going to watch and mimic from a video off youtube. This is thousands and thousands of years of evolution that drives these clownfish to take to their specific anemones. Manipulating clownfish to be hosted by a non-natural anemone all comes down to the clownfish. Some will be hosted, others will not. Some
Ocellaris prefer the top corners of the tank rather then the BTA.

I think the people that have posted pictures of clownfish being hosted by an anemone just happened to be a coincidence, not actually the reason why the clownfish took residence in that anemone. Even if there is some truth to the picture method, good luck on proving it.

 

[JustaG0ldfish]

It took my Ocellaris's 20 days too finally host my Sebae Anemone. Patients my friend =]

 

[DeePDiSHeD]

I tried video on the laptop as well as a picture on the side. Nothing worked.
9 months and counting...

 

[rssjsb]

I have no idea whether a fish's eye can even perceive two-dimensional images in the way that would be necessary for the picture trick to work.

 

[psusocr]

I took my clowns 6 months, they showed no interest, one day i came home and they were in it! just like that.